The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 6

There were many other playthings on the table on which they were being set out, but the nicest of all was a pretty little castle made of cardboard, with windows through which you could see into the rooms.

Who acts: many other playthings, you · What happens: be, set out, make, see · To what, where: playthings, table, nicest pretty little castle, windows

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many other playthings, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 playthings	amod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 playthings	amod
5	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playthings	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 set	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 set	aux:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 set	aux:pass
14	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 table	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 castle	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 castle	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nicest	det
19	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 castle	amod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 nicest	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 castle	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 castle	det
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 castle	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 castle	amod
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	conj
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 castle	acl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 cardboard	case
29	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 windows	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 windows	case
32	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 made	obl
33	through	through	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 see	obl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 see	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 windows	acl:relcl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 rooms	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rooms	det
40	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 see	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	many other playthings on the table		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set out	past · passive		playthings = plaything	the table		tree rules
3	is a	past	many other playthings on the table not said here	a nicest pretty little castle			tree rules
4	make	participle		a nicest pretty little castle not said here		of cardboard; with windows	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	see	could	you		windows	into the rooms	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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